Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Mark, the SA was supposed to not work with the M6 either, but that was just parts of the lens getting in the way of the lightmeter, I can live with that. With digital it is a touch worse. The lightmeter issue is the same but vignetting and colour are less good, so the relative performance between a SA and more recent lens is greater on a M8 or M9 than it was on the film cameras. It is not a question of not working as much as being less good, relatively, than on film. FD On 15 Nov, 2010, at 22:45, Mark Rabiner wrote: > I hear you Frank but they said that about the 21 Super Angulon a lens I"m > not going to die not using. Always a top choice. I saw the slides on the > screen big as life and there was not a thing wrong with them. Just stuff > right with them. Ok it was on an M8. > People are very tuned into the principle of the thing and they let that > affect their eyesight if they actully see the results at all. The thing > should NOT works so well as its so close to the film plain. Well I'm > betting > it can work. Even if it takes some added software to smooth out the edges. > The elegance and simplicity of a symmetrical non retrofocal lens will > always > draw me in. it has to work. Those little image grabbers are pointed > inwards. > And they get better at making them every day. > > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > mark at rabinergroup.com > Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb > > > > >> From: Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:00:27 +0000 (GMT) >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] 21 mm lens for M9 >> >> Be aware that symmetrical lenses are -much- less suitable for M8 and M9 >> than >> they are for film cameras. The 21mm f4.5 is reputed to be stellar on film >> but >> poor on the M8 and M9 since the exit pupil is too close to the sensor. >> Haven't >> tried it myself but there are internet tests out there showing this. >> FD > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information